Lynching in America
Subtitle: a history in documents
By: edited by Christopher Waldrep.
Contributors: Waldrep, Christopher, 1951-
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780814793985; 9780814793992
Subjects: Lynching -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : explanations; title: The first lynchers; title: Jacksonian America; title: Slavery; title: How the West was won?; title: Civil war and reconstruction; title: The gilded age : shall the wheel of race agitation be stopped?; title: State sovereignty and mob law; title: Western lynching in an industrializing age; title: The limits of progressive reform; title: Federal law against mob law; title: The new deal; title: High-tech lynchings.